Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner take a step away from the Hollywood A-list for family day out with daughters

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner looked like any other regular family yesterday as they enjoyed a day out with their daughters at the Farmer's market.

As the rest of Hollywood was going Emmys crazy - donning their best gowns and tuxedos and getting red carpet ready - Garner and Affleck took a step away from the glitz and glamour.

The two actors dressed down casually in jeans, shirts and trainers to partake in a shopping spree in Brentwood with Violet, 5 and 18-month-old Seraphina.

Family day out: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner took their two daughters, Violet and Seraphina to the farmer's market in Brentwood, California yesterday

The couple appear to have shopped till they dropped as they returned home laden down with bags of fresh fruit and vegetables and some freshly cut flowers.

When she was staring in the hit TV show Alias, Garner was a regular fixture on the Emmy's red carpet.

Nowadays though Garner shuns the spotlight preferring to be a hands on mum to her two young daughters.

Explaining the predicament that many young working mothers face, the 38-year-old tells People magazine: 'I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids, and the kids win.

Stocking up: Garner and Affleck were loaded down with bags of fresh fruit and vegetables and some freshly cut flowers

'[It's about] getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting
the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up
from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking
dinner.

'I live my life at these two extremes. I’m either a full-time
stay-at-home mum or a full-time actress.'

Garner and Affleck first met on the set of Daredevil back in 2002, but Garner was married to actor Scott Foley and Affleck was engaged to Jennifer Lopez at the time so they didn't start dating until 2004.

Struggle: Affleck looks like he is having a hard time transporting all the bags of purchases from the car to their home

The couple married in June 2005 at the Parrot Cay resort on the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The private ceremony was officiated by Garner's close family friend, and Alias co-star, Victor Garber.

Garner says that she has learnt from her first failed marriage and is now much wiser about what makes a relationship work, and last.

'I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore,' she says. 'Everyone says it takes
hard work. Well, it kind of does -- and I'm much more pragmatic about
romance than I used to be.

'[With Scott] I wanted to see him as a white
knight and was crushed whenever
anything normal happened. I wanted to be the princess.

'Now
I'm much more willing to see myself as human and flawed, and accept
someone -- the whole picture. My life is definitely changing for the
better. I couldn't be happier or feel more comfortable with the
direction it's going in.'

And Garner says about her husband: 'He's really a gentleman. And he's not afraid to laugh at himself or you.'

Just the two of us: Jennifer took an unusually-dressed Violet out for the day yesterday as well

Mummy and me: Violet looked thrilled to be spending some alone time with her mother